Heavy D “Long Distance Girlfriend”
A scan over the ’09 Grammy nominations list brought upon the usual shock-and-awe reactions (MIA actually made it into Record of The Year!?!…Past Grammy fave Alicia Keys was NOT nodded in the Best R&B Album category!?!…), but none was as WTH!! as seeing old school rap heavyweight Heavy D sitting alongside Elephant Man, Sly & Robbie and Shaggy in the Best Reggae Album field.
Heavy D released a new album!?! And it was a REGGAE release? And it was good enough to earn some Grammy attention?
Turns out Heavy did (very quietly, it seems) drop his eighth studio effort recently, and that project, entitled Vibes, saw the “Now That We Found Love” rapper-turned-actor turning his full attention to the sultry sway of the island. What the bloodclot?!?
Below, catch the video to first single “Long Distance Girlfriend”, a surprisingly not-all-that-bad entry that finds him crooning (!!!) after his “faraway bay-bay” upon a quite addictive Jamaican jaunt (and it seems he’s not really all that “Heavy” anymore).
Hmmm…wonder how long it’s gonna be before Rihanna is called on for the remix.
Heavy D is still the one that I look up to as the best rapper in the universe. I mean that. Peace!